Michael and Catherine had eight children: Patrick, Ellen, James, Girlie, Eddie, Kathleen, Peggy and Mick.

Anne died on 4 June 1927 at 85 years of age.

Catherine died in 1930 at 63 years of age.

On 31 December 1931, Eddie married Elsie Hart and they had five children: Patricia (Pat) born in 1932, Elaine born in 1934, Michael (Mike) born on 31 October 1935, William (Bill) born on 27 January 1937 and Edmond (Joe) born on 17 August 1938.

The farm was worked by Eddie and Mick until Eddie bought Mick’s share in 1942 and Eddie became one of the first milk suppliers in the district when he commenced dairy farming in the same year.

Michael walked everywhere. To his grandchildren’s knowledge, he did not drive a car. Michael often walked up to Swanfels after tea at night to visit the Maguire and the Murphy families. When Pat, Elaine, Mike, Bill or Joe asked him where he was going, Michael (Grandfather) always said, “Going to see the gels (girls)”.

In about the 1940s and ’50s, Michael went to the Ekka every year staying with Jim and Jean at Torwood. Every day he went to the Show and then met up with Jim at the Waterloo Hotel in the Valley after Jim finished work and they travelled home together.

In about the early 1950s, Elaine worked in the old National Hotel at Petrie Bight. When Michael was in Brisbane for the Ekka, Michael called in to see Elaine on his way to the Show.

On a day in August 1952, on Michael’s and Jim’s way home from the Ekka, as Michael and Jim crossed the road after alighting a tram, Michael was struck by a motorcycle. Michael did not recover from the injuries that he suffered and passed away on 15 August 1952 at the age of 84 years. Michael was a very highly regarded and much loved person.

After Eddie passed away on 10 May 1976 at 73 years of age, Mike stayed on the farm and continued dairy farming until switching to beef cattle farming in later life.

Elsie passed away on 19 November 1983 at 81 years of age.